Terms Used In California Codes > Elections Code > Division 19 > Chapter 4 > Article 6 - Counting Procedures

• candidate: includes any officeholder who is subject to a recall election. See California Elections Code 305
• compensation: means the remuneration paid out of funds controlled by the employer in payment for the member's services performed during normal working hours or for time during which the member is excused from work because of any of the following:

  California Government Code 20630

• Department: means the Department of Parks and Recreation. See California Public Resources Code 80002
• Disadvantaged community: means a community with a median household income less than 80 percent of the statewide average. See California Public Resources Code 80002
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Measure: means any constitutional amendment or other proposition submitted to a popular vote at any election. See California Elections Code 329
• precinct board: means the board appointed by the elections official to serve at a vote center. See California Elections Code 339
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
• Voting machine: means any electronic device, including, but not limited to, a precinct optical scanner and a direct recording voting system, into which a voter may enter his or her votes, and which, by means of electronic tabulation and generation of printouts or other tangible, human-readable records, furnishes a total of the number of votes cast for each candidate and for or against each measure. See California Elections Code 361